UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6516
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Summary:
Details: Race condition in the ioctl_file_dedupe_range function in fs/ioctl.c in the Linux kernel through 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly gain privileges by changing a certain count value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6516, https://git.kernel.org/linus/10eec60ce79187686e052092e5383c99b4420a20, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6516
Affected packages
Package
Name: linux-hwe
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -4.8.0-36.36~16.04.1
Affected versions
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
